Copy-holder for type-writing machines.



M. BALABAN. COPY HOLDER FOR TYPE WRITING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED IUNE 28, I913.

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APPLICATION men IUNE28, 191s.

Patented Apr. 13, 1915.

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MARCAR BALAIBAN, OF WEST DIIDSBURY, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND.

COPY-HOLDER FOB, TYPE-WRITING MACHINES.

Application filed June 28, 1913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that T, MARCAR BALABAN, subj ect of the Sultan of Turkey, residing at West Didsbury, Manchester, county of Lancaster England, have invented certa1n new an useful Improvements in Copy-Holders for Type-Writing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a copy-holder for the use of typists and others.

It is designed to provide a holder which will be equally applicable for holding note books and also for holding single sheets of larger area.

The copy-holder comprises an upright arm preferably telescopic fitted into a heavy base, so shaped as to fit under the base of a typewriting machine, and at its upper end is provided with a swiveling plate to hold the copy and an auxiliary plate so connected thereto as to be used as an elongation of the swiveling plate to hold a large sheet of copy or folded back behind it to support the leaves of a note book.

The invention will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings Figure l is a perspective view of the copy holder in position to hold a note book. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the copy holder in position to hold a large sheet of copy. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the auxiliary plate D as in Fig. 1 but removed from the holder. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the auxiliary plate D as in Fig. 2 but removed from the holder. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the auxiliary plate D. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a modified form of the copy holder with the auxiliary extension plate D applied thereto. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a modified form of auxiliary extension frame; and Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the form of auxiliary extension frame shown in Fig. 7 applied to the holder plate shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

The appliance is constructed with an arm A, preferably telescopic, fitted into a heavy base B provided with a socket b at one edge to receive the arm and flat to project under the frame of a type-writing machine the upper end of the arm A having either a laterally bent portion a, as in Fig. 6, or is fitted with a yoke-shaped bracket a as in Figs. 1 and 2.

To the upper end of the arm A a plate or frame C is pivoted, forming a holder upon which the copy is placed.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 13, T9115.

Serial No. 776,366.

The holder plate or frame C depends downward at a suitable inclination and being hinged or pivoted can be turned or swiveled upward and backward to remove it out of the way of the typist when desired.

In the construction shown, a heading wire 0 is applied to the upper edge of the plate C, it forming a rod or pivot to cooperate with an auxiliary frame or member, as will be hereinafter described. A bead wire 0 is also applied to the vertical or lateral edges of the plate C, its lower end being turned upwardly to form a book or copy-supporting ledge c at the bottom of the plate C, as shown, and the upper ends of the bead wire 0 are bent rearwardly and their terminals are bent inwardly to enter apertures formed in the arms of the yoke-shaped bracket of, the bead wire 0 engaging at points adjacent to their terminals 0 with out-turned lugs a formed on the forward extremities of the yoke-shaped bracket a thereby supporting the plate C in its normal position but permitting the same to be swung rearwardly out of operative position when desired.

The plate or frame C is of a size to hold a notebook and to it is added an auxiliary plate D by which the holder plate or frame C is extended or enlarged to support a sheet of much greater area than that of a note book. The auxiliary plate D (or it may be a wire frame as in Fig. 7) is formed with projecting lugs d and the holder plate C with slots 0 into which the lugs d project. The lugs 03 are provided with hooks d 61 the lower hooks d to embrace the beading wire 0 in the upper edge of the plate C when folded back in the position shown in Fig. l, and the upper hooks d to embrace the edge of the plate C or the beading wire 0 therein when extended in the position shown in Fig. 2, or the hooks cl d may embrace the bentover end a of the arm A as shown in Fig. 6.

Fig. 7 shows a modified form of auxiliary frame D which is composed wholly of wire, the same being bent preferably into substantially rectangular form to correspond approximately with the outline of the plates previously described. The wire composing this frame is doubled under at its lower end to form hooks D corresponding with the hooks 0Z of the previously described construction, and the wire is bent or offset at points adjacent to but above the hooks D to form stops D corresponding to the tongues 03 of the previously described construction. In using an auxiliary frame of this construction, the hooks D engage the pivot rod or member a or a when this auxiliary frame occupies a rearwardly inclined position relatively to the main section or holder plate C, as shown in Fig. 1, and when the auxiliary frame D is in alinement with the holder plate C, the lower hooked end of the wire frame is shifted downwardly on the pivot rod or member a or 0 until the stops D abut thereon, the lower hooked end of the Wire frame then bearing against the rear side of the holder plate C and the latter will then act as a prop to support the auxiliary Wire frame in alinement therewith. As both sections of the copyholder will then occupy a rearwardly inclined position, as shown in Fig. 2, the weight of the auxiliary wire frame and any book resting thereon will retain the stops D in engagement with the rod a.

When an auxiliary member of the construction shown in Fig. .7 is used in connection with a copyholding plate of the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the lower hooked end of the member D is first engaged in the slots in the upper edge of the plate C before the beading wire 0 is fastened in place, and when this auxiliary member is used in connection with a construction such as that shown in Fig. 6, the lower hooked portion of the wire frame D is first engaged in the slots in the upper edge of the plate C and the two parts are then slipped endwise upon the member a of the copyholder support.

This holder provides for the holding of copy of any varying size and either in notebook form or in large sheets, and its use with a type-writing machine obviates the necessity of the typist stooping over the note-book or manuscript and the consequent twisting of the body, and as the copy is held directly in front of the typist both the copy and what has been written can be seen at the same time.

I claim 1. A copyholder embodying a supporting arm and a pair of copy-supporting members having means for connecting them at their adjacent ends to said arm, and means slidably connecting said members to one another, said connecting means being slidable into a position to support one of said members in the same plane with the other member and also slidable into disengaged relation to permit one member to be tilted into inclined relation with the other member.

2. A copyholder comprising a base adapted to be inserted freely beneath a typewriting machine and having a supporting arm provided with copyholding members, one of which is provided with hooks slidable into engagement with the other member for setting the members in substantial alinement with one another and also slidable into (lisengaged relation to permit one of said members to be adjusted at an angle to the other member.

3. A copyholder comprising a supporting arm, a copyholding plate, and an extension plate having lugs on its lower end slidable into and out of engagement with the upper portion of the copyholding plate to support the extension plate either in alinement with or at an inclination to the copyholding plate.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MAROAR BALABAN.

Witnesses J. OWDEN OBRIEN. Gno. H. OBRIEN.

Copies of this patent may be'obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0'. 

